Cocked Up

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Now that Blair has basically made a cocked-up mess out of everything, now he says, “OK Gordon, you can have it”? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Looking especially at the Law Society Gazette report, it seems to be the usual: measures introduced with some good points (as acknowledged by both Con and LD in House of Lords) but with the implementation taking away some basic rights and trampling on people who fall outside the standard template by poor drafting and cocked-up implementation of details (e.g., right to see a solicitor at any time). ❋ Alix Mortimer (2009)

I mean who has achieved the least and cocked-up the most. ❋ Glyn Davies (2008)

To me, it begins to look very much like someone (or several persons) cocked-up and one hopes that an inquiry will bring this to the fore. ❋ Richard (2006)

It sticks in my memory because I cocked-up one word, writing "Edinborough" for "Edinburgh". ❋ Patrick Vessey (2008)

It's also a detective story, and Ellis can write those fairly well as the first six issues of Desolation Jones - cocked-up ending notwithstanding - proves. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Government has 'cocked-up' big time - its own agency leaked the disease for goodness sake. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)

Your party are performing miserably, Cameron cocked-up big style in the by-election, you're there to be shot at like anyone else. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Well, he has a royally…cocked-up way of going about business. ❋ Noah Charney (2007)

Does anyone else think that perhaps, just perhaps, Foley was thrown to the media sharks to distract them and the American public from the much more serious issues of gutting the Constitution, shredding the Bill of Rights, and being publicly exposed as lying incompetents who deceived their won country into an unwinnable and totally cocked-up war? ❋ Unknown (2006)

There were pictures cut from books and newspapers hanging on the walls, but some were hung parallel to the cocked-up floor, some to a more abstract line that might have been arrived at with a spirit level. ❋ Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain (2003)

Ernestine had finished her small share of work, then put on her cocked-up hat with a blue bow, and gone down town; so there was no one left to see to the door, and smoothing down her hair, Bea hurried through the hall with flushed cheeks and some anxiety. ❋ Fannie Belle Irving (N/A)

Before I could say anything more, up came and stood before me, cocked-up hat in hand, a consequential, dapper little stout man dressed in black, with his hair in powder. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)

With their cocked-up hat, and gold lace all round, ❋ John Ashton (N/A)

Marian Evans with her long, weird, dreamy face; Lewes, with his big brow and keen thoughtful eyes; Browning, pale and spruce, his eye like a skipper's cocked-up at the weather; Peacock, with his round, mellifluous speech of the old Greeks; David Gray, great-eyed and beautiful, like Shelley’s ghost; Lord Houghton, with his warm worldly smile and easy-fitting enthusiasm. ❋ Various (N/A)

She caught the smile in his voice and pictured the cocked-up corner of his mouth. ❋ Unknown (1910)

And, from the attitude of the bird, of its cocked-up tail, the angle of its neck and head, to say nothing of the inquisitive way it peeped sideways at him over the furniture, he realised that it had come in with a definite purpose -- a purpose that concerned himself. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)

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